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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
(a) The drone has crashed somewhere.
(b) The drone is taking photographs.
(c) The drone has wounded someone.
(d) The drone is following someone.

2. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Enjambment.
(d) Personification.

3. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?
(a) Playing a game with pennies.
(b) Working in a mine.
(c) Getting shot.
(d) Capturing an escaped dog.

4. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?
(a) Needles, California.
(b) Willow Valley, Arizona.
(c) Mountain Pass, California.
(d) Golden Shores, Arizona.

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?
(a) Sex with the beloved is compared to the Christian rite of communion.
(b) Coming home to the beloved is compared to the Ancient Greek tradition of hospitality.
(c) Jealousy and possessiveness in a relationship is compared to cannibalism.
(d) The hard work of a relationship is compared to agricultural work.

6. In "Asterion's Lament," to what is the beloved's body compared besides water?
(a) A garden.
(b) A maze.
(c) A palace.
(d) A desert.

7. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?
(a) It is clear, with hues shifting from green to pink.
(b) It is opaque, varying from red to orange.
(c) It is a clouded and luminous orange.
(d) It is a clear yellow, but has green, blue, and pink occlusions.

8. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?
(a) Combat Infantryman Badge.
(b) Citizens Information Board.
(c) Criminal Investigation Branch.
(d) Certificate of Indian Blood.

9. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "ichor." What does this word mean?
(a) The substance that the Greek gods had instead of blood.
(b) A prolonged period of lazy satisfaction.
(c) The wine that the gods drank on Mount Olympus.
(d) A strong desire to engage in sexual activity.

10. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

11. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?
(a) Apples.
(b) Melons.
(c) Figs.
(d) Pomegranates.

12. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is being referred to by the phrase "these two potters" (7)?
(a) The speaker and the beloved.
(b) Prometheus and Hecatonchire.
(c) The Mojave gods who created humans.
(d) The speaker's hands.

13. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?
(a) The GPS map of the wolf's movements.
(b) The Colorado River.
(c) The line connecting stars in a constellation.
(d) The path the speaker travels to find the beloved.

14. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.
(b) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(c) The wise women who control fate.
(d) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.

15. In "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?
(a) Her children's toys.
(b) The family's dogs.
(c) The birds that nest in their rafters.
(d) Her son's arms and hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?

2. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?

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